Dads on the phone: can you think of something I can get your mother? Help me please as I am all out of ideas.

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It happens every year.I have wracked my own brains trying to think of something for her and just when i think i am finished at last with the shopping. Dad phones.

not perfume
not jewellery
not makeup
not gardening stuff
not cooking stuff

between £60 -£100 plz

voucher for manicure / massage / day at health spa?

sorry isaid- not her thing at all. no idea why but i have got her this before and she never usedit- gave it to my sister in fact
[grrr]

Vouchers?

Or could he take them both away to a nice hotel for a night in the New Year?

does she have any hobbies?

my mum asked my dad for an ipod - not something I thought she'd want in a million years!

oh god, my dad did this every year till we discovered he'd had a mistress for twelve years and she divorced him!

Some presents that she got before the divorce:

A nice, thick, woollen winter coat
A nightie, pyjama, dressing gown set
A very expensive handbag
A picture to hang on the wall (an expensive one, I don't mean that I took him to Athena)

how about a years membership for national trust.my parents loved planning a weekend doing something they wouldn't normally do

Theatre tickets?

ipod thingy? (you never know lol!)
fleecy throw for bed
has she got a computer? new printer, webcam?
digital radio
I think theres a company that sends posh chocolate once a month
binoculars
cinema vouchers
watch
pay to have her oven cleaned (might be a bit insulting that one!)
new handbag

thanks everyone.I should have said a t the beginning that she is impossible to please.Nothing is ever 'right'but at the same time she cannot describe what she would like. dad gets into a right state every year because of her behaviour. But HE has had all blimmin year to find out from her what she might like and then gets into victim mode when she tells him off for getting the wrong thing.
They have been married for 45 years ffs.
i despair.

she takes nearly everything back anyway.
Possibly a fab handbag.They go away on mini breaks all the sodding time.I work in a ticket office so they also get to all the concerts they want.She is the ultimate in impossible as she buys herself anything she wants before you can get to it.lol

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh

m & s have some lovely mirrored jewellery boxes, if she doesn't like it she can get something else

jo malone

Cashmere jumper.

you are going to hate me SEA but she has so much in the way of antique silver boxes and so on- family heirlooms. All the stuff she has is inherited and extremely posh.
Last year i got her Chelsea Flower show tickets.She love plants and flowers, but couldn't bear the idea of going to london- so that was a complete waste of money.

yes ppb Jo malone might be good.Can you get it online in time for xmas do you think?

Cashmere also good.

www.jomalone.co.uk/?ref=77 yes

oh that's ok. i just like the mirrored things about at the moment.

ppb i think you have saved the day.
am looking at Jo Malone now and i actually think she will like it.The travel bag could be the one what with all the travelling she does.will phone poor Dad now.

how are you any way? It would have been good to do a NI xmas meet up.oh well I think everyone is so busy at this time of year.Maybe we can do it in the NY.
Happy Christmas in the mean time.

thanks SEA. I rather like that stuff too actually and the things in M&S are lovely.

Digital camera
new mobile phone
Camcorder
watch
evening/weekend away somewhere special
Roomba hoover (the kind that goes around rooms by itself)
Birdbath
Birdfeeder/seed/bird watching book
Fancy patterned wellies
luggage (could get her a new piece each year to make a lovely set)

Glad I could help.

I'm doing really well. We should all meet up again soon. It was such a success last time.

Beautiful writing paper/note cards and lovely pen.

thanks eb. will decide tomorrow when I speak to dad. poor man has poured himself a scotch and gone to bed.He says Christmas just makes him feel his age( 81)LOL